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Isaiah 22:16

WEB

16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

KJV

16What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?

BSB

16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

FBV

16‘What are you doing here? Who do you think you are, cutting out a tomb for yourself high up on a hill, carving out for yourself a place to rest?

Related Resources

Book of Isaiah Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 1) - BibleProject

Extra References

Matthew 27:60

60and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock. Then he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.

2 Chronicles 16:14

14They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

2 Samuel 18:18

18Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

Job 3:14

14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Isaiah 14:18

18All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

Micah 2:10

10Arise, and depart! For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

Isaiah 52:5

5“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says the LORD, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says the LORD, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.